Friday's papers

The home secretary is under pressure if you believe several of the front pages this morning.

It follows the news that as the Guardian reports

The Conservative frontbencher Damian Green and the civil servant at the centre of the Home Office leaks inquiry said last night they were told when they were first arrested by police that they could face life imprisonment if convicted.

The Telegraph says that,Gordon Brown and Miss Smith have both previously defended the police inquiry. Both will now have to react to the devastating statement from the CPS.

The Mail says that

Jacqui Smith's political future was hanging by a thread last night after explosive revelations by the whistleblower at the heart of the failed Damian Green leak inquiry.

The Home secretary also makes the front of the Times.This time the story is that councils are to have their powers to snoop on the public severely curtailed.The paper adds that

Jacqui Smith will signal government plans today to reverse the expansion of the surveillance society amid growing alarm at the extent of official spying.

The Home Secretary won't like the front of the Express either this morning as the paper as the paper carries a report on the women who was seen being attacked by police at the G20 protests says it was like being whipped by the Taliban.

Finally the Independent turns to a growing crisis in Somalia as it reports that As the world follows the escapades of the country's pirates, civilians are fleeing the anarchy on land, creating the world's biggest refugee camp